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Fugue launches Risk Manager, a SaaS solution that inspects cloud infrastructure environments and identifies resource configuration issues for common compliance regimes. Once violations are corrected and a known-good baseline is established, Fugue Risk Manager can identify configuration drift and revert it back to the established baseline as soon as it occurs.

The Northern Virginia Technology Council has named Fugue a 2018 NVTC Tech 100 company. The NVTC Tech 100 are the companies and individuals who are driving tech innovation, implementing new solutions for their customers, and leading growth in the Greater Washington region.

Cybersecurity startup Luminal has been awarded $600,000 from the Maryland Venture Fund’s InvestMaryland, an economic development initiative set up by the state government and various venture capital firms, following its recent move from West Virginia to Frederick, Maryland.

After spending almost two decades creating album covers for artists like the Rolling Stones and Talking Heads, Stefan Sagmeister wanted to branch out. Enter Jessica Walsh. Initially joining as a designer in 2011, two years later, at the age of 27, she was made partner. The duo announced the news with a nude photo together—something Sagmeister is famous for. Now, the New York-based firm boasts a diverse range of clients, from Levi's to the Guggenheim Museum to Columbia University.

Fugue (the company previously known as Luminal), today announced that it has raised $20 million in a Series C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The Frederick, MD- and Washington, DC-based company’s previous investors, including Core Capital, are also part of this round.

Looking to accelerate the arrival of a new age of “serverless computing” in the cloud, Fugue today unveiled a management framework designed from the ground up to unify the management of widely distributed IT infrastructure resources.

A former Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer co-founded a company — Fugue — which today announced its cloud infrastructure automation product, also named Fugue. The software is designed to help AWS customers simplify their use of the cloud.

In a new report, research firm Gartner Inc. noted that the depth and complexity of Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) offerings — and the pace of new service introductions — lend themselves to professional assistance for optimized use by enterprises.

The polyphonic weavings of a fugue in baroque music is a beautiful thing and an apt metaphor for how we want orchestration on cloud infrastructure to behave in a harmonic fashion. Unfortunately, most cloudy infrastructure is in more of a fugue state, complete with multiple personalities and amnesia.

Frederick, Md.-based cloud data infrastructure startup Fugue has picked up about $41 million in a new funding round. The Series D round was led by Washington, D.C.-based New Enterprise Associatesand included investment from the Maryland Venture Fund, a previous investor, the Future Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Australia.

Here’s the not-so-surprising moral of this story: The key to cloud productivity lies in automating — not only an application’s build, but its provisioning, operations, monitoring processes, in fact, the application’s entire software development life cycle.

Rules are important in the computing world, but they are everything for a government agency. That’s why Fugue Inc. has built a new kind of cloud-native automated operating system designed to mitigate risk and streamline system governance.

A new Fugue survey, fielded to over 300 IT operations professionals, executives, and developers, found that most respondents believe that the cloud is not living up to expectations because of compliance and security concerns, unexpected downstream costs, and the glut of cloud management tools available in the market.

In significant numbers across the board, survey respondents cited cloud complexity, compliance and security, cost control, speed of delivery, and domain expertise as the cloud problems their organizations were working to overcome this year.

Fugue has been named one of the top 10 IT Ops companies in the 2017 SD Times 100. The walls separating segments of what has become the modern software development life cycle have come a-tumblin' down. So development managers need to know more about infrastructure than ever before, and these are the companies leading the way.

You’ve heard of Forbes’ 30 Under 30, but what about the movers and shakers who are still rocking it in their careers after 45? Josh Stella is included as one of the top entrepreneurs from a variety of industries—the list celebrates the work they’re doing to change the world.

We speak with Josh to find out about the top cloud challenges that businesses and agencies face and also about Fugue—a company founded to democratize cloud computing with single-system interfacing and automated governance.

Building a cloud infrastructure that works is hard enough, but for government agencies or financial institutions, strict rules and regulations make for a particularly complicated governance challenge. Fugue CEO, Josh Stella, visited with John Walls and Stu Miniman, co-hosts of theCUBE, during this week’s AWS Summit in New York City to discuss how Fugue helps enterprises meet C-suite expectations.

In recent months, Fugue has been successful in attracting rules-driven, policy-oriented sectors, such as financial services, healthcare and government, where human errors can be costly. The company’s offering of full runtime system enforcement in an automated mode appears to be gaining traction.

Cloud is one of the most pervasive disruptors—discussed everywhere—yet still one of the least well understood. For most companies, its use is inevitable. Being on the strategic edge, with a view of what’s really happening and armed with knowledge that compels you to act, is probably the best place for the C-Suite to be.

In an age of cloud-based infrastructure and software services, the vestigial reliance on legacy systems makes little sense either from an efficiency standpoint or a financial perspective. Here are three ways IT professionals can update their technology for a more simplified and unified infrastructure with more uptime and lower costs.

The reality is that modern enterprises are more complex than ever before – they use a myriad of different infrastructure patterns and managing all of that is hard. I’ve also been a critic of current management and monitoring offerings as they tend to (in my view) only deliver half of the equation: they expose the issues but don’t automate the actions. Or they automate actions, but not with a tie-in to monitoring intelligence. This is where Fugue comes in – created by some folks with deep AWS experience, Fugue is all about policy-driven automation.

At AWS re:Invent, the CUBE's John Furrier discussed cloud security, compliance, and governance with Fugue CEO Josh Stella and Unisys Federal VP of Application Services, Peter O'Donoghue. Josh and Peter offer solution and market insights, including how partnerships like this one can protect enterprises and government from misconfigurations and human error.

AWS announced a host of new cloud services and features at its massive, annual re:Invent conference. Several AWS Partner announcements stood out as well, including Fugue's cloud infrastructure governance and automation capabilities.

Fugue prevents configuration drift or the introduction of out-of-compliance resources across the entire cloud deployment, ensuring an accurate reference architecture as well as the ability to audit every aspect of the deployment.

Even in these days of rapid innovation and heightened security awareness, there’s little that can stop human mistakes from leading to disastrous consequences for businesses. This is especially true when we rely on manual processes and practices in developing complex applications. Fortunately this is also a time of smart, scalable automation, and we now have the tools we need to stop these disasters in their tracks.

Fugue has unveiled new capabilities for preventing cloud misconfiguration errors. Benefits include total visibility of cloud workloads, more control over infrastructure, and increased speed. "Mistakes are far less likely with Fugue’s infrastructure governance automation technology,” said Josh Stella, co-founder and CEO of Fugue.

Compliance is not just for apps and data. Infrastructure, whether on premises or in the cloud, must also adhere to corporate policies. Unfortunately, after resources are spun up for development or production, they often are not checked or audited frequently enough—or at all—to ensure they continue operating in compliance with the rules. Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Global Giving turned to Fugue to address infrastructure governance, automation, and policy compliance needs.

Inc.'s Molly St. Louis sat down with Fugue CEO Josh Stella to discuss the dynamics of the public cloud and how best to tap its power—while maintaining best practices, staying compliant, and focusing on your company's core business value.

With the market now in the “second phase of cloud,” Fugue and Unisys work together to move customers out of the shadow information technology era and into full strategic adoption. “To do that you need automation, you need repeatability, you need consistency, you need policy enforcement.”

Enterprises are slow to embrace automated, cloud-native solutions for securing cloud infrastructure, even as the risks of data breaches and compliance violations increase. And this is despite the fact that the cloud can be more secure than traditional data centers.

Microsoft Corp on Monday said it will soon make it possible for government clients to run its cloud technology on their own servers as part of a concerted effort to make Azure more appealing to local and federal agencies.

Brian talks with Josh Stella (CEO of Fugue) about what DevSecOps means, how companies manage the tension between developer agility and operations stability, how to codify governance via code, and early steps to success in DevOps culture.

Peter O’Donoghue (VP, Unisys Federal) discusses how they use Fugue to enforce and demonstrate compliance in real time on AWS. Josh Stella (CEO, Fugue) talks about the importance of automated remediation for cloud misconfigurations.

The biggest risk in the cloud comes from infrastructure misconfigurations, largely due to human error. But they're entirely preventable. Fugue CTO Josh Stella writes about cloud misconfiguration risk, how to measure it, and what enterprises can do to eliminate it.

A survey of 300 IT professionals by cloud infrastructure security provider Fugue reveals that most enterprises are vulnerable to security events caused by cloud misconfiguration, including data breaches and system downtime events.

Security incidents involving cloud infrastructure misconfiguration have become a significant threat since many organizations began shifting their assets to the cloud. Fugue CEO Phillip Merrick talks with Zeljka Zorz from Help Net Security about the problem and what enterprises can do to solve it.

Fugue announced the availability of the Fugue Compliance Suite to make it easier for enterprises to validate cloud infrastructure against security and compliance policy to prevent data breaches. The Compliance Suite contains pre-built validations expressed in policy-as-code libraries that are mapped to AWS CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-53 Rev. 4, GDPR, and HIPAA.

Fugue co-founder and CTO Josh Stella writes in DevOps Digest on the state of cloud security. IT Operations and Security professionals are caught between a rock and a hard place with cloud misconfiguration. They can limit their organization's cloud agility by clamping down hard on which configurations are allowed, or they can live with a great deal of exposure, uncertainty and operational costs.

Cloud security outfit Fugue has received an investment from the intelligence community’s venture capital arm In-Q-Tel in order to further bring cloud security automation tools into the national security community.

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